A Very high end pc for myself.

[fly2hip8]

Hmm ye, i've not heard much about the new cards, how much wattage are they supposed to consume??

http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/forums.asp?s=2&c=7&t=9354&p=0

 

[pcgamer12]

yes, lets recommend him 150 dollar 4gb ram kits. u can get the pc6400 for 75 for 2x2 kits, they over clock good too. if u are going x38, u cant sli, so pick your graphics cards first before u pick ur motherboard.

 

[Shadow703793]

What a horrible waste of money. You could spend half of that on something with 90% of the speed of that setup, and the other half in two years on something with 150% of that speed.

Try something like this:
Q6700 (OC to 4 GHz)
GA-EX38-DS4
Xigmatek HDT-S1283
DDR2-1066
One 3870X2 for now. Add a 4870X2 later.
Enermax Galaxy 1000W (so you can support 4 GPUs)

Agreed. +2(3?...)

 

[Shadow703793]

What programs will need 8gb or RAM for??

CAD programs and the like (ie. SolidWorks,Inventor,MAYA,etc), also if doing very big image work on CS3. Not sure if OP's running those kind of programs, but those software mentioned above can benefit quite well from 8GB, providing you remember to optimize pagefile.

 

[pcgamer12]

wow, 8GB. 2GB is plenty, 4GB has noticeable gains. But 8GB?

 

[sciggy]

Microcenter has the Q9450 (I picked one up yesterday) for $299 retail box.
Newegg a decent 2x2gb pc6400 ram (Corsair 44412 for $79 after rebate) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145194
Decent mobo x38 or x48 if you are that into the "top of the line" ~$250
PCP&C psu 750 watts $120 after rebatehttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817703009
Good heatsink http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835233003
With that you will be set for a while. That will set you back ~$750. Choose your harddrive, optical, video card(in another month or so), case, and all that and you're done for ~$1500.

 

[onestep]

In less than 3 weeks you'll be able to add 2 better options for your new PC, namely the new P45 boards which launch at computex next week (which support the new 1600mhz fsb & should be good for oc'ing) & the Nvidia GTX280 which launches on the 18th of June.

It's definately worth a 3 week wait as it's pretty much a given that the gtx280 is going to be THE card to get if you want the fastest card for the forseable future. Also make sure you get a PSU which has both 6 & 8 pin pci-e power connectors as both the new 4870 & GTX280 need both.

My provisional list would look like this:
Asus P5Q Pro P45

Q9450 ($359.99)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115042&Tpk=Q9450

GTX 280 ($600)

OCZ SLI-Ready Edition 4GB (2x 2GB) DDR2 800 ($63.99 AR)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227269

WD 640GB HD ($99.99)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136218

ASUS Xonar D2X Sound card ($149.99)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829132005R

PC Power & Cooling S75QB 750W PSU (2x6 pin+2x8pin $120)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817703009

As for cases that really depends on personal preferance, i'd go with 1 of these:
Antec P182, Antec 1200 or Cooler Master Cosmos S.

Let us know what you decide.

 

[Shadow703793]

^Agree on PSU, RAM, HDD. Every thing else looks like an overkill.

 

[aznguy0028]

yea 8gb is overkill imo.

i barely use pass 2gb on my computer and i run everything from photoshop to audio editing programs...and every new game that is out.

 

[nines-]

Thanks everyone!

Here are my plans:
Core 2 quad 6700 - pushing it past 4ghz. Approximately 4.2-44 ( liquid) to eliminate bottleneck.

Gigabyte x38
gtx280 sli or 4870 sli
OCZ SLI-Ready Edition 4GB (2x 2GB) DDR2 800 < - or should i get 1066?
WD 640GB HD ($99.99) <-- not available in my country 🙁
PC Power & Cooling S75QB 750W PSU this thing looks like its ready to be bought by me 😀

Uhm is it a good 640 gb hdd? I may try and ind it Oo

 

[nines-]

Uhh that was a lie! I found one 😛

 

[halcyon]

yea 8gb is overkill imo.

i barely use pass 2gb on my computer and i run everything from photoshop to audio editing programs...and every new game that is out.

8GB for strictly gaming is overkill...yesterday. If you're planning for tomorrow and want to minimize your upgrades get 8GB while its so cheap...closer to free than we could have realistically imagined.

Even with Vista64's pagefile completely turned off and multiple virtual machines running with 8GB I still end up with 1 or 2GB free to the OS...nice.

 

[wesbuck]

Ye thats a good point, i presume that the RAM is faster than the page file no?

 

[halcyon]

Quite faster. The fact that the Vista 64 with 8GB of RAM doesn't need a pagefile whatsoever while still having more than enough RAM to do anything I can realistically imagine is a great side-effect of spending only $200US on some good ram.

You don't need 8GB of RAM, but if you're a candidate for Vista64 you'd definitely enjoy how it sets the OS free.

 

[nines-]

No, I am not gonna use Vista. so 4 gb will be more than enough for me.
By the way, when will 4870's be released? It was the end of may, no? Oo